On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 19:44 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Joe Perches wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps it's more readable code to recheck the
> > field name flag and introduce a temporary
> > char *fname so the slightly unusual reuse of
> >     field = kstrdup(field, GFP)
> > becomes
> >     field = kstrdup(fname, GFP)
> 
> Before I had a local variable filename.  I preferred that because I felt 
> uneasy about putting both statically and dynamically allocated memory in 
> the same field.  But it does mean adding a new local variable.

I think readability is better using a temporary.

> I'm not sure to understand "recheck the field name flag", though.

Sorry, poor wording.  I meant using this style:

        if (field && *field)
                foo
        else if (field)
                bar
        else
                baz

instead of:

        if (field) {
                if (*field)
                        foo
                else
                        bar
        } else
                baz


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